Department of Family and Consumer Sciences

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Department of Family and Consumer Sciences

• Annual Planning Update
• FYO8

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Mission Statement

• The mission of the Department of Family and
  Consumer Sciences is to provide an integrative
  study of the human environment and the systems
  that impact and strengthen individuals, family
  units, agencies, businesses, and the community at
  large.

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Departmental ProfilePersonnel
12 Tenure Track Faculty 2 Full-time NTT
7 Part-time NTT 6 Administrative
Professionals (5 in Child Care) 3 Civil
Service 17 Graduate Assistants 14 UTAs
2 Administrators

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Departmental ProfileStudents

• 03 04 05 06 Target
  Sequence
• 128 161 129 117 115
  Apparel, Merchandising, and Design
• 98 96 93 90 90
  Food, Nutrition, and Dietetics
• 140 140 133 117 80
  Interior and Environmental Design
• 89 94 93 89 80
  Human Development/ Family Resources
• 70 68 60 45 40
  Teacher Education
• 1 5 3 3
  0 General
• 2 5 0 0
  0 Second Majors
• 40 33 44 49 0
  Minors
• 543 600 555 415
• 57 51 46 34 50
  Graduate Students

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Not Just Quantity, but Quality

• ACT scores up 1 point to 24.1 (same as ISU
  average)
• Those who graduated in the top 10 of their class
  increased from 21 to 26
• Transfer GPA average is 3.4 (ISU is 3.1)

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FCS Measures of ProductivityEnrollment
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FY07 Accomplishments

• 100 pass rate on the Child Life exam
• Successfully completed searches for Assistant
  Professors in AMD and HDFR
• Decreased to 7 part-time and 2 full-time
  non-tenured track faculty through new position
• Two-Track Sequence in AMD approved and
  implemented
• Revision and approval of 1978 FCS By-Laws
• Revision and approval of the FCS DFSC Document

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FCS Faculty Accomplishments

• Numerous faculty took on additional labs or
  courses
• All faculty are teaching larger sections
• Sequences are examining revisions to curriculum
  (AMD and HDFR)
• Faculty were active at the College, University,
  State, and National levels in terms of Service
• Faculty increased in the area of external funding
  from (290,000 to 760,000)
• Faculty were actively involved in determining the
  future of the Department through DFSC and By-Laws
  revisions
• New directions and increased efforts in alumni
  relations

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Faculty Scholarly Activity

• Five articles published in national refereed
  journals
• Five refereed abstracts
• Nineteen refereed proceedings
• One chapter in a book published
• One book
• Two non-refereed articles
• Nineteen refereed presentations at regional and
  national conferences
• Twelve invited presentations

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FCS Measures of ProductivityPublications
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Faculty Grants

• Increase in submissions
• 13 external grants for a total of 759,648
• 3 other internally funded projects (2 CAT grants,
  1 URG)

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FCS Measures of ProductivityGrants
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FY08 Priorities

• Monitor strategies for enrollment management
• Provide state of the art comprehensive curriculum
  that allows students to graduate in a reasonable
  time frame
• Improve the quality of the students in the major
• Maintain a highly qualified faculty/ adequate
  graduate faculty
• Maintain ability to contribute to general
  education program
• Empower faculty to engage in scholarly activity

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FY08 Budget RequestsPersonnel

• 1 new NTT position in Interior and Environmental
  Design
• Convert FND line to 12 month NTT
• Instructional capacity for Gosch line (new)
• Instructional capacity for Canabal line

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FY08 Budget RequestsOperations

• Equipment 31,100 (2,700)
• -- 80 of FCS Courses are lab based and 21 of 43
  computers wont run Windows Vista
• Travel 6,000
• -- Student Teacher Supervision costs have doubled
  in the past two years , faculty are active
  presenters
• Contractual 6,000
• -- Department to resume Alumni Newsletter

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FCS Operating Budget
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FCS Measures of Productivity - Budget Spending
Per Student
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FY08 Budget RequestsFacilities / Laboratory
Upgrades

• Food and Nutrition Phase 2-
• --Foods Laboratory Renovation 200,000

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FCS Foods Laboratory
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Cal State-Northridge Foods Lab